"Uneasy about her new substitute teacher, Susan Simmons' suspicions about Mr. Smith are confirmed when she discovers he is an alien determined to bring some sixth-grade specimens back to his planet." --

It is Earth year 2213-but, of course, there is no Earth anymore. Not since it was burned to a cinder by the sun, which has mysteriously begun the process of going supernova. The human race has fled to Mars, but this was only a temporary solution while we have prepared for a second trip: a one-hundred-fifty-year journey to a distant star, our best guess at where we might find a new home. Liam Saunders-Chang is one of the last humans left on Mars. The...

Overview: Between a bully who likes to mash bugs in his hair, a pair of twin siblings who are more than a double handful, and a long absent father, Rod Albright figures he has about all he can handle. That's before the tiny spaceship Ferkel and its crew of five wacky aliens crashlands in a tub of papier mache in Rod's bedroom. When it turns out that the ship's enlarging ray is broken, the aliens decide to camp out in Rod's bedroom. Before long, cranky...

t is Earth year 2223, but the Earth, along with the entire solar system, is gone. Liam and Phoebe, having barely escaped our exploding sun with their lives, are in stasis for the decade-long journey to the rogue planet Delphi, where they hope to meet up with the rest of the human refugees, find help for their injured parents, and pass along the devastating things they discovered on Mars: that someone destroyed their world intentionally, and that that...

New third grade teacher Mr. Granite has so many strange ideas about how to make Ella Mentary School environmentally friendly that the students are sure he must be an alien.

"It is Earth year 2256--but the fate of the few who even remember Earth is perilously in doubt. Mina Saunders-Chang and many of the surviving humans are stranded in the Centauri system, having barely survived their confrontation with the Telphon refugees. Now everyone--human and Telphon alike--is caught in the blast zone of the Centauri supernova. And yet there's only one question Mina is asking: Where are Liam and Phoebe? Having barely made it through...

"Describes the planets and their life forms which make up the Star Wars galaxy." --

Akiko and Mr. Beeba, Spuckler, Gax, and Poog continue on their perilous journey across the planet Smoo to rescue Prince Froptoppit.

"Octavia is excited to study the plants and animals of Faloiv until she witnesses one of the planet's indigenous people being attacked and begins to question her own family history and the scientists she has always admired." --

Describes the main alien life forms which inhabit the Star Wars galaxy.